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Re: Xcode eating hard drive
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Re: Xcode eating hard drive


  • Subject: Re: Xcode eating hard drive
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:54:30 +1000

>As a side note, I remember reading something about hfs extended
>drives developing some sort of issue after becoming 85% full. Since
>my drive was about 99.5%, does anyone know if this spells some sort
>of imminent doom for my hard drive?

It's entirely anecdotal, but in my experience yes, there is a significantly increased chance of disk corruption when it is more than about three-quarters full, or less than about 2 gig remaining (whichever is bigger).

I've also found one several occasions that using up the entire disk often results in it immediately becoming unbootable!

I'm not sure whether this is a HFS+ issue or a MacOS X issue, although in any case I've found disabling journalling helps reduce such corruption significantly under Panther.  No issues as yet with Tiger.

Wade Tregaskis (AIM, Yahoo & Skype: wadetregaskis, AIM audio/video chat: email@hidden, ICQ: 40056898, MSN: email@hidden, Jabber: email@hidden)
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